Chilly riding in for the 12-9 shift. Got to the bottom of a steep hill riding away from home and realized I forgot my headlight battery, left it plugged into the charger. Back up the hill to the house.

I decided, since I arrived near my workplace early, to stop by a bike shop nearby to check out tires. I cut through a supermarket parking lot to get to the shop and ran over some piece of metal. Pull into the parking lot of the shop and my front tire is hissing air. How convenient. So I bought a kevlar belted 700x23 front tire, new tube and they mounted it.

Ride home was uneventful, but pleasantly punctuated with a filet mignon entree.